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TIL One of the most successful KGB agents of the Cold War had the codename, Fedora. He infiltrated the UN and sabotaged the US by providing false information ie. a Fedora tip.

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0wkMy TIL that there is a statue in Russia that honors all the laboratory mice that have sacrificed their lives in order to further scientific research
VMRYp TIL that flying a black Jolly Roger signaled piracy and offered your victim the option to surrender. Flying a red Jolly Roger signaled that no quarter would be given and your ship was about to be taken with no mercy.
LkGmd TIL “Uncrustable” sandwiches have been classified as both a type of ravioli and a type of dumpling
dpZr TIL that when actress Delores Moran was 15 years-old she delivered a coffee to a man and never saw or heard from him again. He never mentioned her to anyone but, when he died over 20 years later, he had left her $300,000.
19LV TIL in 1953, Swanson had 260 tons of leftover turkey from Thanksgiving and didn’t know how to get rid of it. They asked their workers for ideas, and one man thought they should package it in individual trays with sides and freeze it. The TV dinner was born.